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Property from the Estate of Joan Cohen, New York

Jean-Léon Gérôme

Promenade de la Cour dans les jardins de Versailles

Lot Closed

May 20, 06:17 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Joan Cohen, New York

Jean-Léon Gérôme

French

1824 - 1904

Promenade de la Cour dans les jardins de Versailles



signed ‘J. L. GEROME’ (lower left)

oil on canvas

canvas: 32⅝ by 55¼ in.; 80 by 138.5 cm.

framed: 38 ½ by 59 in.

Gérôme to Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris (1895)
Crist Delmonico, New York, 1896 (Goupil Stock Book 14, p. 100, row 6, stock no. 24420, as Promenade a Versailles)
George N. Tyner, Holyoke, MA and New York
His sale: American Art Association, New York, 1 February 1901, lot 74 (as Louis XIV and His Court in the Park of Versailles)
Edward Brandus, New York
Guilia P. Morosini, New York
Her sale: American Art Association, New York, 10-13 October 1932, no. 1199
John J. Campbell, New York
His sale: American Art Association, New York, 25 January 1935, no. 80 (as Promenade de la Cour a Versailles)
Samuel C. Hooker, New York
His sale: American Art Association, New York, 13 January 1937, no. 62 (as Louis XIV and his Court in the Park of Versailles)
Possibly, Feldman
Schnittjer and Son, New York
Parke-Bernet, New York, 10-12 June 1942, lot 518 (as Louis XIV and His Court in the Park of Versailles)
Innis Young, New York
Possibly, Carl Freund (14 March 1947)
Nord Galleries, New York
Joan Cohen, New York (since 1956)
Oeuvres de J.-L. Gérôme, vol. 7, no. 7 (illustrated as a half-tone photograph)
Art Journal 58 (July 1896), pp. 193-94 (illustrated in black and white as Promenade de la Cour)
Figaro-Salon, 20 June 1896
Le Ménestrel, 7 June 1896, p. 180
Gabriel Mourey, ‘The Salon of the Champs-Elysees,’ in The Studio 8 (1896), p. 103
La Quinzaine 10 (1896), p. 370
Revue des deux mondes 135 (1896), p. 919
La revue de Paris 16 (1896), p. 653
La Revue du siècle, littéraire, artistique & scientifique 10 (1896), p. 341 (as Promenade de la Cour dans les jardins de Versailles)
La Vie Parisienne 61 (1896), p. 283 (as Promenade de la cour à Versailles)
Gustave Geffroy, La vie artistique 5 (1897), p. 240
Art Journal 61 (1899), p. 194
Gustave Haller, Nos grands peintres, Paris, 1899, pp. 151-53 (as Louis XIV se promenant dans le parc de Versailles)
Angelo Mariani, Figures contemporaines tirées de l’Album Mariani, 1899, p. 1903
Gustave Haller, Le salon, dix ans de peinture 1 (1902), pp. 284-85
TP’s Weekly 1 (1902), p. 467
Le Bulletin de l’art ancient et modern, 1903, p. 25
La Grande revue 25 (1903), pp. 469-70
The Muse 3 (1903), p. 54
Philharmonic: A Magazine Devoted to Music, Art, Drama 3 (1903), p. 54 (as Court Promenade in the Gardens of Versailles)
Everybody’s Magazine 10 (1904), p. 430 (as Louis XIV and His Court in the Park of Versailles)
Les Arts: revue mensuelle des musées, collections, expositions, 1904, p. 26
Albert Soublies, J.-L. Gérôme (1824-1904): souvenirs et notes, Paris, 1904, p. 14
Procès-verbaux et mémoires, 1905, p. 165
Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs of Louis IV and His Court and of the Regency, New York, 1910, illustrated between p. 290 and p. 291 (in black and white as The King’s Walk at Versailles – painted by J. L. Jerome)
Albert Keim, Gérôme (1824-1904), Masterpieces in Colour, ed., M. Henry Roujon, New York, 1912, p. 66
George Henry Allen, The French Revolution, Philadelphia, 1922, p. 68 (illustrated in black and white)
‘The World in 1000 Years,’ Illustrierte Berliner 1961, p. 5 (illustrated in black and white)
La Revue du Louvre et des uses de France 33 (1983), p. 423
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme (with a catalogue raisonné), New York, 1986, pp. 145-47, pp. 278-79, no. 438 (illustrated in black and white as Promenade of the Court in the Garden of Versailles and as lost)
Eric Zafran, Cavaliers and Cardinals: Nineteenth-Century French Anecdotal Paintings, Cincinnati, OH, 1992, p. 12 (illustrated in black and white)
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme (monographie révisée et catalogue raisonné mis à jour), Paris: 2000, pp. 158-60, pp. 344-45, no. 438 (illustrated in black and white as Promenade de la Cour dans le parc de Versailles and dated 1895 and as lost)